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Groove Harder
By Groove Harder
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Hi, first time poster here.

 

I am in a bit of a conundrum here... I have an ASUS A520M-Plus motherboard and a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU. I need to do a bios update to allow that CPU to be used with the motherboard. Currently I get no display to allow me to do it through the BIOS and the motherboard doesn't have a BIOS Flashback button.

 

Is there any way that I can flash the new BIOS without using a 3rd gen Ryzen (don't have) which is compatible with the motherboard straight out the box?

 

Thanks in advance!

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You MUST have a compatible CPU, plain and simple. You have 3 options:

  1. borrow one from a friend
  2. buy a cheap one from ebay
  3. Use the AMD loaner-CPU program

Do you have a GPU installed? Just covering everything, because a 5500 does NOT have an igpu, so it will not display anything from the motherboard video ports.

Primary Gaming Rig:

Ryzen 5 5600 CPU, Gigabyte B450 I AORUS PRO WIFI mITX motherboard, PNY XLR8 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 RAM, Mushkin PILOT 500GB SSD (boot), Corsair Force 3 480GB SSD (games), XFX RX 5700 8GB GPU, Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case, Corsair SF 450 W 80+ Gold SFX PSU, Windows 11 Pro, Dell S2719DGF 27.0" 2560x1440 155 Hz Monitor, Corsair K68 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (MX Brown), Logitech G900 CHAOS SPECTRUM Wireless Mouse, Logitech G533 Headset

 

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Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, ASRock B450M Pro4 mATX Motherboard, ADATA XPG GAMMIX D20 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 RAM, Mushkin PILOT 1TB SSD (boot), 2x Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" HDD (data), Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" HDD (DVR), PowerColor RX VEGA 56 8GB GPU, Fractal Design Node 804 mATX Case, Cooler Master MasterWatt 550 W 80+ Bronze Semi-modular ATX PSU, Silverstone SST-SOB02 Blu-Ray Writer, Windows 11 Pro, Logitech K400 Plus Keyboard, Corsair K63 Lapboard Combo (MX Red w/Blue LED), Logitech G603 Wireless Mouse, Kingston HyperX Cloud Stinger Headset, HAUPPAUGE WinTV-quadHD TV Tuner, Samsung 65RU9000 TV

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Yeah, thought as much. Just thought that I would ask in case there was a back door way of doing it 😂

 

There is a computing shop local to me so I'll pop along tomorrow to see if he can do it. Surely he will have a compatible CPU lying around from repair jobs.

 

Yeah, I have a GPU.

 

Thanks peeps

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